Readers of the Heidelblog know that R. Scott Clark has helped countless people understand the confessional Reformed tradition in new and richer ways. Scott has been laboring to this end for more than thirty years by teaching church history at Westminster Seminary . . . Continue reading →
Join the Heidelcast for the weekly live streaming show featuring R. Scott Clark and Brad Isbell. Heidelcast Live! will be live at 9:00 AM Pacific/Noon Eastern, Wednesday October 21, 2026 right here on the Heidelblog, on the Heidelcast Youtube channel and on the Heidelcast X account. Continue reading →
The church need not be morbid. It does, however, need to be honest. Death is not an occasional pastoral problem. It is a fact of ordinary ministry. Every pastor who remains in the ministry long enough will stand beside hospital beds, counsel . . . Continue reading →
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Luke 6:36. How is God our heavenly Father merciful? In this that he gives us all things, natural and spiritual, temporal and eternal, gratuitously and out of pure goodness. For should he . . . Continue reading →
In this episode, Dr. Clark opens the coffer and answers a question about the nature of the lying spirit in 1 Kings 22:19-23. We have to be careful when asking questions that Scripture do not specifically give us the answers to, but this passage does give us an opportunity to give thanks to God that he graciously chose us and brought us to true faith and new life in Jesus Christ. Continue reading →
In this episode, Dr. Clark begins a mini-series titled, “Get Married, Have Children,” where he considers the falling fertility rate in the United States, contrasting that to the creational pattern of, “be fruitful and multiply.” Continue reading →
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Matt. 7:21. If we are to do God’s will, we must first know . . . Continue reading →
These were the top five posts for the week of October 12–18, 2026. Continue reading →
I was going to title this two-part essay “Find Girl, Marry Girl” as a follow-up to the brief series on the creational pattern for marriage and children, but some of the responses I received to it reminded me that for many young . . . Continue reading →
American Evangelical Christianity is in crisis. The story of how it got here is an important part of this series but there are several reasons so many evangelical Christians are discontent and looking for something else, something with historical roots, with a sense of tradition, with a sense of of transcendence, with reverent worship, and with a deeper view of the sacraments. Continue reading →
Chiliasm is the ancient name for what today is known as premillennialism, the belief that when Jesus Christ returns he will not execute the last judgment at once, but will first set up on earth a temporary kingdom, where resurrected saints will . . . Continue reading →
In this episode, the Superfriends answer three related questions about the doctrine of the republication of the covenant of works. In other words, was the pre-fall covenant of works, made with Adam and Eve, in some sense reenacted or echoed at Mount Sinai within the Mosaic Covenant? Continue reading →
It often seems like chaos and busyness dominate every second of our lives. We feel the bustle and pressure of living in a hectic society. Even more, we may feel the anxiety caused by distressing events around the world as we watch . . . Continue reading →
Congregationalists and Presbyterians were hardly strangers in colonial America. Though from different lineages -– the former from English stock and the latter of Scotch-Irish descent -– there was a growing kinship between them. The 1648 Massachusetts Cambridge Platform affirmed the “substance” of . . . Continue reading →
In this episode Dr Clark and Brad Isbell discuss ecumenism. What is it? From where does the word come (hint: it’s Greek), what should we think about it and can we be ecumenical and faithful to the Scriptures as confessed by the Reformed churches? Continue reading →
In this episode, Dr. Clark gives more thoughts on reforming the church. A listener asks, “How does a member of a NAPARC church address concerns to the session in an official capacity without being divisive?” And, “ At what point should serious differences with church practice lead to a member leaving for another church?” Continue reading →
If we are justified by the works of the law that are done by the power of grace, the distinction between the covenant of works or the law, the covenant of grace or the gospel, is meaningless. Samuel Rutherford, The Works of . . . Continue reading →
The church is nothing if it is not centered on the Word. The Word of God is both the origin of the church and its telos, the goal toward which the church strives. The church’s great work is proclaiming the good news . . . Continue reading →
Christ, by dying, satisfied God on behalf and in place of sinners, just as if they had themselves died in their own person. Christ, by dying and obeying the Father, acquired righteousness, not merely a personal righteousness but that of a surety. . . . Continue reading →
In the first part we quickly introduced the basic (and erroneous) doctrine of covenant nomism—namely that God has established a system whereby sinners are admitted to the covenant by grace, but they stay in, retain that status, or retain the benefits received . . . Continue reading →
In this episode, Dr. Clark open the coffer and answers the questions, “What do you do when you when you disagree with the church leadership?” And, “Does my church’s liturgy need to be reformed?” Continue reading →
